Hello dhamma frinds,
Do you approach such a Bhavana meditation on creation hungry? The Buddha denied such a thing, so from the perspective of the Dhamma I must point out that the diversity of the universe is so immense that it far exceeds our understanding. When it comes to the origin of life on Earth, we are dealing with many complex systems, all of which are interrelated and support each other or are based on resistance. To shed light on something like that you would have to do research on several levels: astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics and who knows what else. First and foremost, according to the Dhamma, we are dealing with devolution, from Realm 31 downwards, and then with supportive, constructive evolution. Devolution created RNA.
And here I’ll abbreviate it quite a bit, because I don’t want to deliver a doctoral thesis here.
We need some emergence cycles of birth and destruction of the solar system to even create a foundation of elements based on carbon, carbon as a connector. Or water is also a very important substance that is important for development, not just in terms of humidification. So that something like “Luca” (Last Universal Common Ancestor) comes into being in the first place. Then today’s science needs three things for simple life.
1. Cell structure (Rupa)… something like that which the Buddha also pointed out so that we have a separation between inside and outside.
2. The metabolism to produce energy like/ Non-equilibrium system
3. DNA/RNA information/4 bases C, G, A, U
Rupa——————————
Nama——————————
4. Entity Mind, with underground as Suddhāṭṭhaka
5. Namagotta with innumerable Pancakkhandha
6. Kamma energy 3x for awakening, sustaining and destroying.
Points 4 to 6 are still completely unknown to today’s science. So it always depends on the complexity of the structure when we can call something conscious life. No conscious life without Suddhāṭṭhaka as an underground, with the emergence of “entity mind” with the generation of the 5 aggregates: R, V, S, S, V…and Namagotta’s and countless “Pancakkhandha”, as well as the dhammā energy. All others who are not at the structural level are considered living but not feeling. Structure levels like in humans did not arise from a cell but in devolution, but this basic mechanism of evolution and metabolism, first to third points, is needed to sustain further life. Many things appear alive through the connection of matter with laws that are stored in point 5 “Pancakkhanda”. Cell division is caused by proteins, but is controlled by a law from the “Pancakkhandha”. So there are many mechanisms at work but all of them are controlled by Pancakkhandha and are awakened, maintained or destroyed with dhammā energy.